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Mining & the mines, 1896

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Late Hillgrove Mining News. Crushing's to Yesterday

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 January 1896 · page 4

Hillgrove, Friday afternoon. At the Eleanora mine 480 tons have been crushed for 205oz. retorted gold and concentrates carrying 70ozs…

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Gold Find at Wyalong. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday Afternoon

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1896 · page 5

A GOOD reef carrying free gold has been struck at a depth of 240 feet, at Wyalong, which is the lowest level at which gold has been found on that field;…

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Yesterdays News. [Through Our Special Agents.] Hillgrove Mines. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday Afternoon

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1896 · page 5

MR. JAS. INGLIS, while in England, secured money to open out the gold and antimony resources at Hillgrove…

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The Newcastle Coal Teade. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 31 January 1896 · page 5

A DEPUTATION waited upon the Premier to-day to urge the Government to devise some means of ending the unsatisfactory state of the Newcastle coal trade…

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Fire in in Seaham Colliery. Newcastle

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 1 February 1896 · page 6

Information has been received here on Tuesday evening to the effect that the fire in the Seaham colliery has not yet been extinguished. It has…

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Mining in New England. TILBUSTER

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 1 February 1896 · page 5

The result of the crushing of 3½ tons of stone from the Major's claim (Little Nell Reef) was 2½ozs. of retorted gold…

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Cablegrams. Sydney, Friday. The Transvaal. a Strange Proceeding. Mines to Be Shut Down

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 1 February 1896 · page 4

President Kruger has issued a proclamation announcing his intention to close the Band mines, under pretext of the continued commotion among…

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Mining in New England. TILBUSTER

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 February 1896 · page 2

On Saturday last at the Great Britain shaft a reef which proved to be 18 inches thick was struck, but this is not the reef being sunk for…

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A Long-Neglected bu[?] Promising Gold Field

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 February 1896 · page 2

GRA[?]ALLY, we are glad to observe, the claims of the locality lying three or four miles to the north of Armidale, and generally known by the…

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The Mining Conference. Opens To-morrow. Business of the Meeting

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 February 1896 · page 2

The Mining Conference opens in Sydney to-morrow. The Hon. Sydney Smith will preside and 130 delegates are expected…

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The Transvaal. Reported Disorders at Johannesburg. Interview with President Kruger. Demands of the Uitladders. Uitlanderson the Rand Goldfields. Arrogance of the Boers

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 February 1896 · page 4

London, January 31. — Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has ordered Sir Jacobus de Wett, the British Resident in the…

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A Haunted Colliery in Wales

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 6

THE Morta Colliery, in Glamorgan, six years ago the scene of an explosion, has been deserted in superstitious terror by the miners, and for some days past (says a London paper), they…

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Miners in Conference

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 2

THE first sitting of the Mining Conference was held in Sydney on Wednesday, under the presidency of the Minister for Mines. Delegates were present from all mining…

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Traveller They Love the Gold

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 4

Climate affects the inhabitants of the sea just as it does those of the land. As Arctic land plants cannot flourish at the Equator, so in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans marine…

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The Coal Trade. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 5

THE Premier to-day had a long conference with the northern mine owners re the selling price of coal and miners' wages. It was stated that the mine owners…

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Mining Conference. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 5

THE mining conference resumed its sitting to-day, and has not concluded…

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Fishing and Mining Industries. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 5

THE unemployed conference again met yesterday, and passed a resolution affirming the necessity for the development of the fishing and mining industries…

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Mining Conference. Speech by the Minister for Mines. Question of a New Mining Bill

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 8 February 1896 · page 6

A conference of representative miners from all districts in the co lony was opened in St. James' Hall, Sydney, on Wednesday morning…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 8 February 1896 · page 3

The Mining Conferences opened in Sydney on Wednesday morning. The local representative, passed. through early in the week…

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Mining Law Reform

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 8 February 1896 · page 4

NEW England ought to be keenly interested in the proceedings at the Mining Conference now sitting in Sydney, for on the future of her…

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